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The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. Tears are but finite; 'tis but awhile that we shall Motive. 9 weep; after a few showers that fall from our eyes we shall have a perpetual sunshine; in heaven the bottle of tears is stopped, Rev. 7. ult. God shall wipe away all tears; when sin shall cease, tears shall cease. Psal. 30.5. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning; in the morning of the Ascension, then shall all tears be wiped away.
9. Tears are but finite; 'tis but awhile that we shall Motive. 9 weep; after a few showres that fall from our eyes we shall have a perpetual sunshine; in heaven the bottle of tears is stopt, Rev. 7. ult. God shall wipe away all tears; when sin shall cease, tears shall cease. Psal. 30.5. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning; in the morning of the Ascension, then shall all tears be wiped away.
Motive. 10 10. The benefit of holy mourning; the best of our commodities come by water.
1. Mourning doth make the soul fruitful in grace: When a shower falls, the herbs and plants grow. Isaiah 16.9. I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon. I may allude to it; tears water our graces, and make them flourish.